Investigation of Popular Children's Literature Works in Terms of Root Values: Exaggeration Dust and Grandpa’s Grocery

Abstract

Children's literature products are of great importance in the development of children, in the formation of their characters and additive identities. Children reach children's literature products through lessons from the moment they start school with the contribution of the family in the pre-school period. In addition to acquainting children with literary works and gaining reading habits, it is important which books they read. Because the most effective power that provides social continuity between societies is education. Social values, awareness of being human, family, individual and citizen, in short, cultural accumulation can be transferred to the child through education. One of the best tools to provide this transfer in educational institutions is literary products. For this reason, it is important to examine the values in children's literature and the way these values are handled in a positive and negative way. The aim of this research is to read Şermin Yaşar's books, Exaggeration Dust and Grandpa’s Grocery, which are found to be widely read by secondary school students, based on the ten root values (justice, friendship, honesty, self-control, patience, respect, love, responsibility, patriotism, helpfullnes) in the Turkish Lesson Curriculum of the Ministry of National Education. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research, and content analysis technique was used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, while the values of respect (26%), helpfulness (17%) and honesty (14%) were the most common values in the book of Grandpa’sGrocery, the values of patriotism (0%) and patience (1%) were the least included; In the Exaggeration Dust book, the values of love (23%), responsibility (20%) and helpfullness (18%) were most frequently included, while patriotism (1%) and honesty (2%) values were the least included.

Keywords

• Children
• values
• values education
• root values

Çok Okunan Çocuk Edebiyatı Eserlerinin Kök Değerler Açısından İncelenmesi: Abartma Tozu ve Dedemin Bakkalı

Abstract

Çocukların gelişim dönemlerinde, karakterlerinin ve toplamsal kimliklerinin oluşmasında çocuk edebiyatı ürünlerinin önemi büyüktür. Çocuklar, okul öncesi dönemde ailenin katkısıyla okula başladıkları andan itibaren dersler aracılığı ile çocuk edebiyatı ürünlerine ulaşmaktadırlar. Çocukların edebiyat eserleri ile tanışıp okuma alışkanlığı kazanmalarının yanında hangi kitapları okudukları önem arz etmektedir. Çünkü toplumlar arasında sosyal sürekliliği sağlayan en etkin güç, eğitimdir. Çocuğa toplumsal değerler, insan, aile, birey ve yurttaş olma bilinci, kısacası kültür birikimi eğitim yoluyla aktarılabilir. Eğitim kurumlarında bu aktarımı sağlayacak en iyi araçlardan biri de edebiyat ürünleridir. Bu sebeple çocuk edebiyatı eserlerinde yer alan değerler, bu değerlerin olumlu ve olumsuz şekilde ele alınış şeklinin incelenmesi önem arz etmektedir. Bu araştırmanın amacı da ortaokul öğrencileri tarafından çok okunduğu tespit edilen Şermin Yaşar’ın Abartma Tozu ve Dedemin Bakkalı kitaplarını Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı’nın Türkçe Dersi Öğretim Programı’nda yer alan on kök değere (adalet, dostluk, dürüstlük, öz denetim, sabır, saygı, sevgi, sorumluluk, vatanseverlik, yardımseverlik) göre incelemektir. Araştırmada nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden doküman incelemesi kullanılmış, verilerin analizinde içerik analizi tekniğinden yararlanılmıştır. Araştırma neticesinde Dedemin Bakkalı kitabında en sık saygı (%26), yardımseverlik (%17) ve dürüstlük (%14) değerlerine yer verilirken, en az vatanseverlik (%0) ve sabır (%1) değerlerine yer verildiği; Abartma Tozu kitabında ise en sık sevgi (%23), sorumluluk (%20) ve yardımseverlik (%18) değerlerine yer verilirken, en az vatanseverlik (%1) ve dürüstlük (%2) değerlerine yer verildiği tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

• Çocuk edebiyatı
• değerler
• değerler eğitimi
• kök değerler

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